heave

Meanings

Verb

• To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
• To throw, cast.
• To rise and fall.
• To utter with effort.
• To pull up with a rope or cable.
• To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
• To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
• To displace (a vein, stratum).
• To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
• To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
• To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
• To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
• To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

Noun

• An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
• An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
• A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
• The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
• An effort to vomit; retching.
• Broken wind in horses.
• A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

Origin

• From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną ("to take up, lift"), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p-.
• See also West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen, German heben, Danish hæve), Albanian kap ("I grasp, seize"), Old Irish cáin ("law, tribute"), cacht, Latin capiō ("to take"), Latvian kàmpt ("to seize"), Ancient Greek κάπτω ("to gulp down"), κώπη).